Ancient Indian History

This period witnessed the clash, the rise and fall of a number of smaller kingdoms. The native dynasties like Shungas, Satavahanas, and the Kanvas ruled in eastern India, central India and the Deccan region

Three Crowned Kings ruled Tamilakam which comprised that part of India south of the Maurya Empire in  250 BCE. ( The land south of Krishna River).

The Sangam was characterised by a school of poets and bards, who thrived in three  different periods under the patronage of the Pandyan Kings.

Palaces were inspired from Achaemenid palaces of Iran and Wood was the principal building material.

The Mauryan Empire was the first pan-Indian empire, an empire that covered most of the Indian region. It spanned across central and northern India as well as over parts of modern-day Iran.

Ajivikas were also known as Sundra Sanyasins and their philosophy was based in Niyati

World is full of sorrow and man is unhappy because suffering is caused by desire/craving and if we end the desire, it leads to Nirvana and to end the desire one must follow the eight-fold path (Ashtangika Marga).

According to Shvetambaras, the original doctrine taught by Mahavira contained in 14 old ‘Purvas’ which was passed orally for 200 years.

Around 62 religious cults came into existence in the 6th century B.C. in the middle Gangetic plains. Buddhism and Jainism were the most important amongst them.

The north-western India formed the twentieth province or Satrap of the Persian empire. Xerxes, Darius’s successor, employed Indians in the long war against the Greeks